OctoBOO Continues with Team Halloween
A few items from fellow Substackers to set the mood!
If anyone doesn’t wish to be tagged here, please let me know. The tagging is meant to help writers be seen, not annoy them.
I Couldn’t Wait Until October 31st
My plan to wait until October 31st to post a roundup of your chilling, thrilling stories and other Halloweenish posts has crashed and burned. Why? Because I can’t wait! Too much good stuff already popping up.
, a team of historic true crime researchers and writers, has announced they will be posting a series of “Spooky Season” stories. (Some AI images but all human written text.) posts (for paid subscribers) some great advice and some rather—uh, well, let’s just say “very seasonal” pumpkin carving images by Ray Villafane. See it here: reveals the cover art for the second hardcover graphic novel in the Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters series - THE KILLING STONE. The book launched today (8 Oct 2024) Take a peek here: ratchets up the old concept that something that is part of our nature can be cured, in this case having to do with vampires. Read it here: has prompted some rather spooky micro-fiction and pulled it together here: a story that will make you shudder! Read it here: brings us another entry in The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries. Read it here: takes you Down the Rabbit Hole with a series of spooky tales from previous years: brings a chill to the air with this poem: , a true treasure here on Substack, sinks his teeth into the whole Dracula phenomenon with this insightful essay:
And as if that weren’t enough, last year about this time,
listed classic Halloween Short Stuff. Check them out here:
Did I miss anyone’s Halloween stuff? Please let me know in a comment.
On a more serious note
Some people are facing the horror of Hurricane Helene with Hurricane Milton is bearing down on already impacted people in Florida. Plus here on Substack several people I follow or subscribe to are facing their own horror.
, bringer of the Horror Haiku Club Prompts, is facing a rent increase she can’t afford. Please check out her Substack and visit her Etsy shop (I couldn’t find a link, sorry). is now job hunting (publishing, editing, writing, etc.) and keeping up his Substack Read More Books. See more here: is dealing with health issues but soldiering on with big plans for her Substack, combining her author page with her podcast which is growing in popularity. See more about that here:
The Rest of Team Halloween in alphabetical order:
In addition to the people named above, here are more great folks to check out.
dhw=definitely human written (might be using AI-generated images, though)
Please let me know if you wish to be designated as “dhw.”
– Victorian Vignettes – Exploring eerie elegance of Gaslamp Horror in Victorian era. (dhw) – Crockerfeller Tales – Scoop Magilla creator, Kraken Lore editor – Unsettled Mind – Horror – Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic – Monsters & Mystics – Fantasy, paranormal romance (dhw) – Andy Futuro – Cyberpunk, horror, dirtbag literature (dhw) – Pretty Evil Fiction – Fiction by Bill Adler (dhw) – Everywhere and Nowhere: Explore Fantastic Worlds (dhw, with help from faerie ancestors) – Blackthorn Witch – Telegrams from Bloodstream City – Horror Weekly – It's the Devil – College professor, Am Lit PhD, pulp reader, horror lover, writer – SwampWitch (dhw) – Tales of the Zeitgeist – Contemporary fiction, humor, horror, sci-fi (dhw) – Chris from Monster Complex – Colin’s Dark Stories (dhw) – Cyndi’s Dark Fiction – detect magic (dhw) – Lamp Post in the Marsh – Made from What’s Not Real – Superhero, anthropomorphic, fantasy; also use SF, horror, mystery, other when appropriate. (dhw) – Dungeon Mistress Chronicles (dhw) – Between the Words – Exploring the Eyrie (dhw) – Vampires & The Vapors – Non-fiction – Garbage Notes – Speculative fiction, poet – The Distractionist – Ginger’s Substack – SHE WHO STIRS THE STORM (dhw) – Grace’s Spook Show – Editor, Disturb Ink Books | Co-Founder, Unsettling Reads – A work of fiction – Conversations with Critters (dhw) – Through a Glass, Darkly (dhw) – Jim Melvin’s Realms of Fantasy (dhw) – Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal – Strange New Worlds – Sci-fi, horror, humor/satire (dhw) – Substack von jonasT (in German) – Joyce's Place (dhw) – The Fantastic and Mundane Chronicles of a Fantasy Writer – Echoes From the Well (dhw) – Vindicators (dhw) – The Salty Witch – Health and wellness (dhw, actually supernaturally written) – Halcyon Horror (dhw) (dhw) – Every Day is Halloween – The Palace of Night – Fiction for the Cosmically Disturbed – luke harold’s substack – Wannabe Vampire – The Inciting Incident with Mata Haggis-Burridge (dhw) – Targeted Nightmares – A Shadow of Yew (dhw) – Miri and the Muse – Steamy paranormal romance with fantasy/adventure – Books and Boos, with Nicolina Torres – The Norman Crane – Macabre Curiosities – Horror – Twisting the Myths (dhw) – PC3 Horror – My Own Little World – Robert's Substack – Sci-fi, non-traditional fantasy, speculative fiction, weird fiction (dhw) – S. Dumont’s Corner – Ghost Notes (dhw) – Scrawls of the Dread’s Substack (dhw) – Writer's Odyssey – The Horror! The Horror! – Slow Burn Horror’s Substack – Snowy Hearts, host of Menagerie Morning! – The Wild and the Quiet – Obsessed with the uncanny – svndavn stories – Romance, fantasy, sci-fi – Shadows and Space (dhw) – The Crusader's Castle – Westerns, neo-westerns, horror, book/movie reviews, essays – Trial & Error – Dracula’s Ghost (dhw) – Horror & Comics Unlimited – DOOM FICTION (dhw) – Wyatt Werne (dhw) – Xander’s Substack – YA horror, thrillers, urban fantasies———
Keep writing! The readers are out there, anxiously waiting.
Please check out my author website. And thanks for reading.
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Thanks for reading. Please check out my first book of recently published eerie short stories (ebook, paperback, audio), and my new book of eerie Sci-Fi stories (Kindle and paperback), both from Wordwooze Publishing. (I even designed the covers.) My third book is now out in ebook and paperback: The Wiccan Tales. A real Halloween treat.
See them all here:
Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Apple Books | Kobo | Thalia (German) ebook & print | Smashwords | Angus & Robertson: | Mondadori (Italian) | Vivlio (French/English) | Fable | Palace Marketplace
Thanks for the Mention! This is a really great idea, and that was an excellent selection of content. I'll be posting some more Horror stories for the Halloween season very soon... 🎃😎🎃
Thank you for the shoutout.